Helicon

Helicon or Helikon may refer to

Places

• Helicon (river), a former river in the Macedonian city Dion, mentioned in Greek mythology
• Mount Helicon, mountain in Boeotia, Greece
• "Helikon", an 1893 mansion designed by Charles Slayter in Strathfield, New South Wales
• Helikon Park, a park in Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
• Torre Helicon, the fourth tallest building in Monterrey, Mexico
• Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community formed by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey

Arts and entertainment

• Heliconian Club, Toronto women's arts society

Literature

• Englands Helicon, an anthology of Elizabethan pastoral poems published in 1600
• Helicon (planet), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series

Music

• Helicon (instrument), a brass musical instrument in the tuba family
• Helicon Mountain, studio of Jools Holland
• Helicon, a 1977 album by The Four Seasons
• Helicon Records, a record label founded in Israel in 1985
• "Helicon 1" and "Helicon 2", songs by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai
• Helikon, a 1952 piano concerto by Mikis Theodorakis
• Helikon Opera, a Moscow-based opera company
• TC-Helicon, a Canadian audio equipment manufacturer
• Helicon Blue, a Canadian three piece band that included Dallas Green (musician)

Science and technology

Software

• Helicon Filter, a photo editing program
• Helicon Photo Safe, a digital image organization tool
• Helicon Ape, an ASP.NET module to introduce Apache functionality on IIS web servers

Other uses in science and technology

• Helicon engine, a 1,125 cc (68.7 ci) liquid cooled V-twin engine that powers the Buell 1125R and 1125CR motorcycles in 2008 and 2009
• Helicon (crater), a lunar impact crater
• Helicon (physics), low frequency electromagnetic waves
• Helikon vortex separation process, used for uranium enrichment
• Helicon Double Layer Thruster, a prototype spacecraft propulsion engine

See also

• Heliconiinae or Heliconians, a subfamily of butterflies
• Heliconia, a plant genus